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Code, coffee, and React Native ⚛️☕📱 | Making apps that just work | Learning one bug at a time 🐛➡️✨

[Beto @betomoedano]

Want to recreate ChatGPT’s swipe menu in React Native? 🧠

I spent the morning building it. Here’s how it works:
→ Gesture Handler tracks the swipe
→ Reanimated handles movement, scale, and opacity
→ Codex helped me build a custom Expo module for the exact iOS screen radius
→ Older iOS and Android use hardcoded fallbacks

The detail that sells the effect: the corner radius never changes, so it feels like you’re moving the physical display.

Source code 👇

[Kadi Kraman 💚 @kadikraman]

Y'all asked and @amanhimself delivered: the @expo UI docs now show previews of what each component might look like
https://t.co/98D4ODTMhp

[Kadi Kraman 💚 @kadikraman]

Finally stacked PRs directly in GitHub!

[Kadi Kraman 💚 @kadikraman]

My little GitHub tracker now has a menu bar popover!
This is fun: React Native 🤝 macOS

[Kadi Kraman 💚 @kadikraman]

If only obtaining skills in real life was this easy! 😍
What should we add next?

bunx skills add expo/skills

[Kadi Kraman 💚 @kadikraman]

Clicky https://t.co/GQOD9XSVYM

[Kadi Kraman 💚 @kadikraman]

Nico's advice is gold - take it!

[Expo @expo]

🆕 Today we open up the beta for our new mobile Observability service.

If you've ever shipped a release and felt uneasy for the next 24 hours...this service is for you.

@kadikraman's App.js talk from today goes into excellent detail. We'll share that link below and a page where you can get started with the beta ↓

[Evan Bacon 🥓 @Baconbrix]

In Expo SDK 56 you no longer need react-native, react, react-dom, or react-native-web installed to run `npx expo start` and create a bundle.

Any guesses as to why we added this?

[Expo @expo]

The Expo MCP Server is now available to everyone.

Anyone with an Expo account can connect an AI coding assistant to Expo docs and tools. We see devs using it for a lot of stuff, but here are a couple examples:

◆ Pulling official Expo docs and SDK guidance into the editor
◆ Inspecting Build status, workflow runs, logs, and TestFlight crashes
◆ Driving a local simulator to take screenshots, tap through flows, and collect logs

Details in the changelog ↓

[Expo @expo]

💅 Expo UI is now stable in SDK 56.

One import from @expo/ui gives you SwiftUI on iOS and Jetpack Compose on Android. Real platform components underneath.

Drop-in replacements for 7 common community packages are in there too. Worth thinning out your package.json this week.

Full blog with details about getting started below ↓

[Expo @expo]

SDK 56 is stable. Time to upgrade.

Last release was the first time we recommended the official Upgrade Skill and the results were staggering. So we're recommending it again.

We know a lot of you have complex apps that require a more hands on approach so we put together a full upgrade guide ↓

[Kadi Kraman 💚 @kadikraman]

It's AppJS next week!!! 🥟🇵🇱☀️🤳

[Kadi Kraman 💚 @kadikraman]

Bundle size too big? Did you know you can compress all the images in your Expo project with a single command!

[Evan Bacon 🥓 @Baconbrix]

Create SF Symbols from SVGs with:

~ / bun create symbol /path/to/icon.svg

[Kadi Kraman 💚 @kadikraman]

https://t.co/cltTTujOMP

[Expo @expo]

Two frontend devs built a video social app that feels like it came from a "big team".

That's a familiar story we hear from Expo devs. Even more now with AI. Small teams can be extremely ambitious with Expo + LLMs.

@Tendbble's blog about how they tackled video memory, 60fps on Android, and camera lifecycle bugs is a good read for anyone building media heavy apps with Expo ↓

[Expo @expo]

We just cut the SDK 56 beta 😅

◆ 50%+ faster iOS builds (precompiled XCFrameworks) ◆ 40% faster cold starts on Android
◆ Expo UI is stable
◆ iOS widgets are stable
◆ expo-router rebuilt from scratch
◆ Inline native modules
◆ Brownfield multi-app support

The obvious themes are speed and stability. But there are a lot of other interesting changes (like Expo Router decoupling itself form React Navigation). Get all the nuance and detail in the changelog below ↓

[Evan Bacon 🥓 @Baconbrix]

Build, Launch, Repeat 🚀

Watch my new @reactjs conf talk today!

✦ 0:00 - @Expo 54
✦ 1:22 - Launch
✦ 4:44 - AI app / live demo
✦ 10:49 - CSS in Expo

[Solarin @S0LARIN]

Card flip interaction in @expo
with Reanimated